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If we're just code being executed on some machine, we could be executed on a different machine - one that can move around in "their" world. Basically, getting u

If we're just code being executed on some machine, we could be executed on a different machine - one that can move around in "their" world. Basically, getting uploaded into an android frame. (Assuming that their world would even be comprehensible to us; but again, as others have pointed out, so much of this is effectively theological...)

Erem 3y ago
I mostly enjoy this hypothesis because I'm a developer. I like imagining The poor sap that has to deploy us. And what do their logs look like? What does their tech debt look like? "Hey yeah there's this emergent bug where bad things happen to good people. We would love to fix it but you know the intern wrote the implicated service in Haskell so we would have to rewrite it in Go and nobody has time for that this quarter."
- vidarh 3y ago
  One of the most distressing parts of the simulation argument, is that I can't really get away from the idea that if we are in a simulation, the most likely simulation to be in would be some broken dev or QA build.
steve1977 3y ago
But we would still be code, we could not escape our "non-corporality" I guess. Or if you want to have a theological take, we could not become god(s).
- pavel_lishin 3y ago
  The beauty of the simulation hypothesis is that we know nothing about the "real" world one level up. For all we know, they can grow a body on-demand and slap any set of patterns into whatever they have for brains.
- vidarh 3y ago
  If we are in a simulation there's nothing but code preventing us from being gods in every way that matters. Who'd want a "real" existence any way, if you can be in a simulation where control of the simulation would mean you could change your entire physical reality? If we are in a simulation it also weakens the presumption that there even is any such thing as a corporeal existence - maybe it's infinite layers of simulations.

Erem 3y ago

I mostly enjoy this hypothesis because I'm a developer. I like imagining The poor sap that has to deploy us. And what do their logs look like? What does their tech debt look like? "Hey yeah there's this emergent bug where bad things happen to good people. We would love to fix it but you know the intern wrote the implicated service in Haskell so we would have to rewrite it in Go and nobody has time for that this quarter."

vidarh 3y ago
One of the most distressing parts of the simulation argument, is that I can't really get away from the idea that if we are in a simulation, the most likely simulation to be in would be some broken dev or QA build.

steve1977 3y ago

But we would still be code, we could not escape our "non-corporality" I guess. Or if you want to have a theological take, we could not become god(s).

pavel_lishin 3y ago
The beauty of the simulation hypothesis is that we know nothing about the "real" world one level up. For all we know, they can grow a body on-demand and slap any set of patterns into whatever they have for brains.
vidarh 3y ago
If we are in a simulation there's nothing but code preventing us from being gods in every way that matters. Who'd want a "real" existence any way, if you can be in a simulation where control of the simulation would mean you could change your entire physical reality? If we are in a simulation it also weakens the presumption that there even is any such thing as a corporeal existence - maybe it's infinite layers of simulations.